Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many patients were recorded as waiting in accident and emergency for over 24 hours in January.
NHS England publishes monthly data on accident and emergency performance. This includes information on those accident and emergency attendances that are 12 hours or longer for type one and two accident and emergency providers. The latest provisional data shows that in January 2025, there were a total of 172,515 such accident and emergency attendances.